Good luck beating this game without breaking your system in anger.
Now you're probably saying, "Wait, did he say steroids?" and I'm going to say yes. You are able to give "juice" - another street name for steroids - to your players to enhance their strength, agility, and other areas. You can also give steroids to a player if he gets injured on the field. Now the idea of using these illegal substances may sound cool and entiscing, but it is almost useless in-game. You pay RIDICULOUS amounts of money for one cycle of the drugs, and it only enhances your character by 1 point and thats really it... additionally, not all steroids can be used at one time by all players, only 1 can be used at a time. So lets say I wanted to use Steroid A on a QB, but also wanted to use Steroid A on a linebacker.. I couldn't.
Its a football game, so what do you expect? You kick off the ball, run around a field, choose a play, and so on. The fun comes in the form of the tackles. Although I can easily say this game has NOTHING on "Blitz 2000" for the Nintendo 64's hilarious, bone breaking, wrestling inspired tackles, there are some moments that are..do I dare say, cool. These are now called "dirty hits" and they are when you do damaging tackles to an opponent. These include anything from jumping on the back of an opponent to grabbing his head from behind and ramming it into the floor.
New to the Blitz series is the "Clash Meter". This is a thing that, if filled up, you can slow down time and make running past defense a lot easier, or you can use it to do game-ending injuries to opponents. You can fill this up by gaining yards, doing dirty hits, doing nice catches, etc. Its really easy to fill up the clash meter honestly.
So why is this game getting a bad score? For one reason: difficulty. This game is honestly the hardest game I have ever played. The rival team uses the clash meter constantly and its impossible to beat a lot of the teams on the first...second....third...fourth try. If they catch a ball maybe 2 feet ahead of your blocker, you wont be able to catch up...you'll constantly fumble the ball..they will score like 2 touchdowns at the very end of a game. Basically, the difficulty is retarded. Its so hard that I can't give this game a high score.
The achievements are lame, I'm not even getting into it.. Weak Sauce? Come on.
The graphics are okay, but feel a bit dated and the character models feel & look a bit stiff. The stadiums look pretty good though and the weather effects are cool.
The music is really good I must say. Midway managed to score (hed) PE, Skindred, KoRn, and other artists to contribute to the soundtrack and it adds nicely. There is some techno-ish music as well. The sound effects are pretty awesome like when bones crack or someone gets smashed to the floor.... however, the commentary provided by both player and announcers are horrible. "Yeah, sorry butter fingas."...boo.
To finish, Blitz: The Leauge would be a lot better if it was beatable, and to those who did beat it then my hat is truely off to you. The game is fun to play with your friends however, so I guess the annoying campaign can be overlooked. 6.3.